Face Pollution

It could be about plastic surgery, but I also think it might be about having to put on a face for his audiences, the media, the music industry etc....

Just my thoughts

the feeling of being thrown in a pool of shark, people just trying to rip you off in a smart way, and not wanting to be affected by it, keeping your calm, to not denigrate yourself and become like them, but stay out of trouble and keep your conscience clean.

This song is a perfect fusion of punk and metal-the definition of grunge. It's about make-up. All hail Ben Shepherd!

Plastic surgery is very literal interpretation, and I think it comments on that as well, but more specifically, it's talking about the need to hate ourselves, making us want to change. A face, or a facade, or a visage if you will all relate to superficial perceptions of others and oneself. One might relate this to material possessions. Pollution has two meanings both literally and metaphorically. Literally it exists around us. Metaphorically, it can be used to say your being confused or tainted. I don't know if this song has an opinion. It's more of a commentary on how easy it is to wake up one day and not like what you see if you allow outside perceptions to interfere with your love of self.

It’s about someone who Chris knows who constantly feels sorry for him/herself and seeks attention through feeling sad and downtrodden. “Face Pollution” describes this other person’s frown or grimace. Chris can’t imagine behaving that way to gain attention and sympathy, thus “I don’t feel like feeling like you.”

AWESOME AWESOME RIFF. Thank you Soundgarden!

Oh come on! No one has posted about this song!? It's fuckin awesome! The guitar is so sweet. One of my favorites.

I have no idea what he's ranting about but the riffs in this song are sweet, and Chris Cornell seems to have an animal thing in his lyrics... there seem to always be dogs or pigs or snakes or, in this case, fish, sharks and monkeys

I would say something like his opinion of how people try to make themselves beautiful by either putting make-up on or getting plastic surgery (I fear that I'm in you, Now I'm into plastics, Now I've made a mask). He doesn't want to be that (But I don't feel like feeling, feeling like you)

i think he is addressing his audience saying he doesn't want to be our slave and it is making him numb, making him cry, perhaps the face pollution is his worn out face or his tears, but he says 'I fear that I'm in you', fears he is one of us fears he is part of us. He then says that he has been changed by us to be like us 'now that i'm into plastics', 'Now I;ve made a mask'. I think the mask could be him hiding his insecurities to become one of us but he doesn't feel like being part of us. He doesn;t want to be one with us...

I don't feel like feeling

I don't feel like feeling like you

i really think those lines have separate meanings and that the previous line is not just an incomplete version of the second.

thats what i got from it.

In my opinion a huge rant against plastic surgery, It just makes the name so obvious.